Illinois Family Group Sheet for the Eugene STEVENS Family

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Submitted by: Mary Miller
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Husband: Eugene STEVENS
Birthdate: Feb 17, 1853
Birthplace: Joliet, Will County, Illinois
Death date: Jan 20, 1923
Place of death: Boulder, Colorado
Father: STEVENS, John William
Mother: DEVERSON, Harriett I.
Other spouses: KISSELL, Ino Thomas

Marriage date: Jul 28, 1880
Marriage place: Denver, Colorado

Wife: Ophelia Ann HEATLEY
Birthdate: Sep 03, 1861
Birthplace: Auraria, Colorado Territory
Death date: Jul 10, 1930
Place of death: Denver, Colorado
Father: HEATLEY, Francis Perrin
Mother: O'HANLON (HANLON) Ellen
Other spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: STEVENS, Leo Irving, Sr.
Birthdate: Jun 12, 1881, Red Elephant Mine, Lawson, Colorado
Spouses' names: FINK, Helen M.
Marriage dates: Jun 28, 1905, Denver, Colorado
Death date: Aug 11, 1968, Denver, Colorado

Child No. 2: STEVENS, Ella Katherine
Birthdate: Jan 25, 1883, Red Elephant Mine, Lawson, Colorado
Spouses' names:
Marriage dates:
Death date: Mar 07, 1892, Denver, Colorado

Child No. 3: STEVENS, Edgar Clarence
Birthdate: Nov 15, 1884, Leadville, Colorado
Spouses' names: JACKSON, Mary Ellen
Marriage dates: Jun 09, 1909, "The William Robinson Farm," Holdredge, Nebraska
Death date: Jul 13, 1952, Denver, Colorado

Child No. 4: STEVENS, Jean
Birthdate: Dec 20, 1886, Leadville, Colorado
Spouses' names: RILEY, Thomas F.
Marriage dates: Dec 16, 1908, Denver, Colorado
Death date: Apr 16, 1967, Denver, Colorado

Child No. 5: STEVENS, Viola Irene
Birthdate: Feb 03, 1889, Leadville, Colorado
Spouses' names:
Marriage dates:
Death date: Mar 07, 1891, Denver, Colorado
 
 
Documentation:
* Birth, Marriage and Death Records,
* "Ghost Towns" by Robert Brown and Parry Eberhart,
* Green Mountain Cemetery Records,
* Deeds and Land Records, Leadville, Colorado,
* City directory of 1890-1891 (Leadville,)
* City Directory of 1884 (Leadville,)
* Mines and Mining Men of Colorado, by ******************,
* The Mining Districts of Boulder County, Colorado by Percy Stanley Fritz, University of Colorado, 1927
* and many, many more Sources. Too many to list here. Contact mary kell for more information and/or Sources.

Notes:
* Eugene STEVENS was quite prominent as an Assayer / Chemist in the Georgetown, Leadville area and worked for American Smelting in Leadville. About 1907, he and his second wife, Ino moved to Boulder County, Colorado, where he developed a Tungsten Camp in Boulder Canyon below the Barker Dam at Nederland, Colorado. It was originally named "Stevens Camp" and later changed to "Tungsten. Eugene died January 20, 1923 of Asthma, Myocarditis and other complications aggravated by his mining activities. He was 69 years old and was buried in the Green Mountain Cemetery, in Boulder, Colorado. His wife, Ino, lived in the home until her death in 1941 and is buried beside her husband. The property had been sold to the University of Colorado for $100.00 and is now part of the Folsum Football Stadium and practice field.
* Ophelia "Phe" Ann HEATLEY, born September 3, 1861, born at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the Platte River, in Colorado Territory. Daughter of Francis Perrin HEATLEY and Ellen O'HANLON HEATLEY. The family came by covered wagon, drawn by oxen, from Chicago, Illinois, arriving in St. Charles/Auraria about June 6, 1860.